What's New in Microsoft 365 - Friday, July 17, 2026

Microsoft 365 Blog - Tech Community

What’s New in PowerPoint Craft

The PowerPoint team is modernizing the creation experience to help you build polished presentations with less friction. Over the past several months, we’ve focused on updates you can use directly—new . . .

Monday, July 13, 2026

Microsoft 365 Developer Blog

Build Once, Run Everywhere: Unified Manifest for Office Add-Ins now Generally Available

Unified manifest support for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook makes it possible for developers to build a single app that works across Microsoft 365 apps, creating a more consistent experience for . . .

Thursday, July 16, 2026

Building Agents for Teams: Turning conversations into outcomes

The Microsoft Teams platform mission is to build the best collaborative platform in the world. We want to make it easy for developers to build agents that participate seamlessly in chats, channels, an . . .

Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Microsoft 365 Insider Blog

More control and better accessibility with permalinks in SharePoint Online

As SharePoint Online has evolved, our team has heard consistent feedback from screen reader and keyboard-only users about permalinks. We’re thrilled to announce a new, upgraded experience that’s more . . .

Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Microsoft Teams Blog

Focus on the Teams Phone calls that matter most with intelligent call delegation

Incoming calls don’t wait for a break in your day. Whether you’re leading a meeting or juggling back-to-back commitments, every new call creates the same dilemma: answer and risk losing momentum, or i . . .

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Skype for Business Blog

No Skype for Business Server Security Updates for July 2026

Although Skype for Business 2015 and 2019 are now out of support, some customers have purchased the Skype for Business 2015 and 2019 Extended Security Update (ESU). We have therefore decided that unti . . .

Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Exchange Team Blog

Released: July 2026 Exchange Server Security Updates

Microsoft has released Security Updates (SUs) for vulnerabilities found in: Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE) Exchange Server 2019 Exchange Server 2016 SUs are available for the following spec . . .

Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Planner Blog

Create reusable plans faster with custom templates in Planner

Turn any basic plan in Microsoft Planner into a reusable, shareable template to speed up planning and ensure consistency across plans. Custom templates capture key plan elements such as tasks, goals, . . .

Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Power BI Updates Blog

Deep dive into Power BI reporting with the new date picker slicer option (Preview)

Power BI’s new date picker slicer helps report authors set dynamic default date ranges while giving viewers flexible, easy ways to explore dates, ranges, and rolling periods as data refreshes.

Thursday, July 16, 2026

ITOps Talk Blog

When Compute Sits and Waits: Fixing the Hidden Storage Bottleneck in EDA and HPC with Azure NetApp Files

Hello Folks! If you have ever stared at an HPC pipeline and wondered why the queue depth keeps climbing while every CPU graph looks lazy, this session from the Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Summit 20 . . .

Thursday, July 16, 2026

Modernize VDI with Azure Files and Entra Cloud-Native Identities

Hello Folks! If you have ever run a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) estate, you know the recurring riddle. The session hosts are designed to be stateless and pooled, yet every user expects a pers . . .

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Moving Petabytes Without the Panic: At-Scale Storage Assessments and Migrations to Azure

Hello Folks! If you have ever been asked to move all our file shares to the cloud ASAP. You already know that storage migration is one of those projects that looks easy on a slide and gets ugly in re . . .

Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Microsoft Security Blog

ACR Stealer: Two observed intrusion chains amid increased threat activity

In this article Campaign 1: WebDAV-based ClickFix with Python loaders and blockchain C2 Campaign 2: MSHTA-initiated PowerShell chain with steganographic payload delivery Mitigation and protection guid . . .

Thursday, July 16, 2026

Least privilege for AI agents: Identity, access, and tool binding

In this article Real-world scenarios Best Practices: Identity + RBAC + Scope + Safe Tool Binding Looking Ahead AI agents aren’t only smarter API callers. They plan, chain actions across systems, and i . . .

Thursday, July 16, 2026

Unpacking the AsyncAPI npm supply chain compromise and import-time payload delivery

In this article Attack chain overview How the attack started: GitHub Actions pwn request Mitigation and protection guidance Learn more On July 14, 2026, Microsoft Threat Intelligence identified a coor . . .

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Turning threat intelligence into decisive action with Defender Experts

In this article Upstream: See the campaign before it reaches you Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence Now Integrated into Defender In your environment: Follow the threat everywhere it moves See it l . . .

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Microsoft Azure Blog

Azure Databricks delivers proven business value

Microsoft Azure Databricks delivers the first-party advantage of Databricks on Microsoft—and for customers, that advantage shows up as real, measurable value. It is the same Databricks platform your t . . .

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Microsoft Foundry Blog

Answers You Can Trust: Grounding Enterprise Agents with Foundry IQ

Enterprise AI has a trust problem, and it is not about fluency. A model will answer almost any question with confidence, whether or not it actually knows. The moment a legal or support team catches it . . .

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Implementing Multi‑Agent Orchestration in Microsoft Copilot Studio

As organizations move beyond simple Q&A copilots, a common challenge quickly emerges: single agents struggle to handle multi-step, cross-domain scenarios. In our work with customers using Microsoft Co . . .

Wednesday, July 15, 2026